finalize
Make it official
Finalize means to complete something by putting it in final form.
You finalize a deal, a contract, a guest list, or travel plans when all details are settled and nothing remains to be decided: We're still finalizing the arrangements.
The word sometimes draws criticism as corporate jargon, but it fills a genuine need—conclude and complete don't quite capture the sense of making something official and unchangeable.
Complete successfully
- achieveSucceed through effort
- concludeEnd or infer
- completeLacking nothing, fully done
- finishBring to completion
wrap-up · seal · consummate · culminate · clinch · polish · perfect · execute
Establish through investigation
choose · lock-in · confirm · cement · fix · establish · set · conclude
accomplish
Complete successfully
finish · wrap-up · seal · consummate · culminate · clinch · polish · perfect · execute · deliver
determine
Establish through investigation
commit · choose · lock-in · confirm · cement · fix · establish · set · conclude · rule
ratify
Formally confirm agreement
validate · seal · authorize · endorse · formalize · certify · execute · countersign · notarize · witness
draft
Preliminary version of text
- editModify written material
- proofreadCheck writing for mistakes
- formatArrangement and presentation style
submit · file · publish · print · approve · review · sign · date · stamp · certify
- finalizationconclude, close, clinch, seal, settle
- Business Verbsdeal, trade, negotiate, bargain, transact
- editorial actionsedit, revise, proofread, publish, review
- endingsending, the end, finish, close, end
- finishfinish, complete, conclude, end, wrap up
- settle meaningsagree, compromise, reconcile, negotiate, decide
- national finalistCompetitor in countrywide final round
- semi finalistCompetitor in second-to-last round
finalized, finality, finalist, finalise, finalizing, finalised, finalizes, finalises, finalising